If anyone has seen my lost two posts, you know I bought a bunch at the recent value tasting I attended. This is another from this purchase. It is also another that I wish I bought more of!! At $9 it is a good value. Kind of funky though, as it has no vintage. A very fruit forward bottle that will work fine with food, but would serve as a good stand alone bottle as well. Soft tannins with good structure and a bit of spice make this wine a fine house red. Alc is 13.5%.

Hi ther GAD-fly. One of my favorite new restaurants here in the valley feature this very nice quaffer. Having dinner there tomorrow,and will probably run them out of stock again as there are 6 of us. WW

Many stores in the area are now offering 20% case discounts, mainly to get rid of wine. Someone came up with the great idea of the higher case discounts rather than the price slashing that's going on in some places. Makes sense from a retailer's point of view because it's moving more wine out of the shops faster. There's even one shop that's offering 30% on three or more cases, and their single bottle prices are competitive, so they're not marking up.

Maybe "get rid of" is a mite strong. It's pretty much a result of the current economy we think. Sales are down some and a lot of bottles are languishing on the shelves. For instance, yesterday seemed a particularly slow day, so when I was running the closing reports I checked last year's sales at this time of year. The past two months are about 15% behind last year. We're getting good sales out of the "Best Buy" section and the everyday wines, but the mid and higher tiers are lagging. Someone suggested it might actually be due to the crappy winter we've been having, and people just aren't in the mood. I hope that's all it is and things pick up with warmer weather.

Kc, every time someone tells me that sales are slow because of the weather I want to cry. I always think: "why does bad weather cause people to forego their daily bread (wine)?" Then, I realize that wine is not our daily bread here in the USA...sad affair.

Hope things pick up your way--as a retailer, I hate to here that profits have to be sacrificed.

Kc, every time someone tells me that sales are slow because of the weather I want to cry. I always think: "why does bad weather cause people to forego their daily bread (wine)?" Then, I realize that wine is not our daily bread here in the USA...sad affair.

Hope things pick up your way--as a retailer, I hate to here that profits have to be sacrificed.

Kc, every time someone tells me that sales are slow because of the weather I want to cry. I always think: "why does bad weather cause people to forego their daily bread (wine)?" Then, I realize that wine is not our daily bread here in the USA...sad affair.

Hope things pick up your way--as a retailer, I hate to here that profits have to be sacrificed.

This post has run a little off. Maybe I didn't give enough info. It was bought at a tasting in RI, not a store in MA. Hence the 20% mixed case discount. This is after three cases too. Bottle price was 10%, one case mixed or solid was 15%, and the three case break was 20%.